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Please join us for the hometown launch of Andrew Forbes’s The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays, and for the launch of Brent van Staalduinen’s debut novel, Saints, Unexpected, both brand spanking new from Invisible Publishing. Also on hand will be Invisible author Teri Vlassopolous (Bats or Swallows, Escape Plans), and Janette Platana (A Token of My Affliction). Readings, refreshments, books for sale, reverie.

Andrew Forbes is the author of the fiction collection What You Need, as well as The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays. He lives in Peterborough. andrewgforbes.com

Teri Vlassopolous is the author of the award-nominated collection Bats or Swallows. Her fiction has appeared in Room Magazine, Joyland, Little Fiction, and various other North American journals. She lives in Toronto. Escape Plans is her first novel.

Janette Platana was born and raised in Saskatchewan and now lives in Peterborough, Ontario, where she writes, plays music, and makes short films. Her story, “Dear Dave Bidini,” won This Magazine‘s 2009 Great Canadian Literary Hunt. http://janetteplatana.com/

For more information on these books and the rest of Invisible’s great offerings, visit invisiblepublishing.com

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